Fattening pigs
Effects of free range and confined housing on joint health in a herd of fattening pigs
... indoor fattening pigs found that outdoor pigs walked more and were more active overall ...the pigs. Pigs in confined pens spend up to 80% of their time lying down [16], whereas ...
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Behaviour of fattening pigs fed with liquid feed and dry feed
... MZ and PW are veterinarians working at the Department of Animal Health and Antimicrobial Strategies at the National Veterinary Institute (SVA) and at the Department of Clinical Sciences at the Swedish University of ...
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Haemorrhagic bowel syndrome in fattening pigs
... in fattening pigs in a system with liquid feeding based on ...farms. Pigs fed with whey consume large volumes of liquids and high amounts of easily fer- mentable components, which predispose for a ...
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Potential loss of nutrients from different rearing strategies for fattening pigs on pasture
... the fattening pigs need to be in the form of concentrates, which makes it difficult to substantially reduce the dietary ...the pigs have access, because reduced stocking rates will lead to reduced N ...
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Assessment of NH3 Reduction and N2O Production during Treatment of Exhausted Air from Fattening Pigs Building by a Commercial Scrubber
... The study was carried out from September to November 2012 on a pig farm in Brittany (France). The air scrubber is installed to treat the air of a total of 750 fattening pigs in seven sections of one ...
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The effect of linseed diet on carcass value traits and fatty acid composition in muscle and fat tissue of fattening pigs
... ABSTRACT: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of linseed in the diet of fattening pigs on car- cass value traits and changes in the fatty acid profile in muscle and fat tissue. Thirty crossbred ...
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The influence of various leguminous seed diets on carcass and meat quality of fattening pigs
... Growing pigs were offered adequate diets containing field beans (20–25%), sweet lupines (15–20%) or extruded soybeans ...of pigs fed diets with different leguminous seeds did not differ significantly from those ...
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Provision of straw by a foraging tower –effect on tail biting in weaners and fattening pigs
... study, pigs showed significantly more exploratory and agonistic behaviour on penmates in pe- riods of draught, which were produced with cold air and a high air velocity ...the fattening period in batch 2 ...
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Practical handling skills during road transport of fattening pigs from farm to slaughterhouse: A brief review
... example, pigs that have been walked in the alley during finishing will be easier to drive ...[7-9]. Pigs that have never walked on concrete before, may balk and be more difficult to ...the pigs to ...
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The effect of feeding technologies on the economics of fattening pigs
... age. Pigs fattened ad-libitum achieved ...of pigs with the average daily gain equal to 826 grams were practical- ly lighter by 5 kilograms in average while receiving prob- ably (P < ...the ...
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Increasing daily feeding occasions in restricted feeding strategies does not improve performance or well being of fattening pigs
... other pigs feeding [3] and group housed pigs consume more feed than individually kept ...in fattening pig ...the pigs' welfare using these outcome measures as ...
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Effect of immunocastration in group housed commercial fattening pigs on reproductive organs, malodorous compounds, carcass and meat quality
... eral ban on castration is envisaged in the EU by the year 2018 (EC declaration, 2010). In view of these changes, immunocastration is one of the possible alternatives. The method is based on vaccination against GnRH ...
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Etiology of acute respiratory disease in fattening pigs in Finland
... finishing pigs showing acute respiratory symptoms and eight control herds showing no clinical signs suggesting of respiratory problems were enrolled in the ...20 pigs per herd. In addition, nasal swab ...
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Homogeneity of the phenotype in the fattening pigs and methodology of its assessments
... Novým prvkem tohoto řešení je dynamika fenotypu hodnoceného zvířete vyjádřená z jeho hmotnosti na začátku výkrmu (G 0 ), hodnoty hmotnosti plemenného standardu odpovídající asym[r] ...
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Feeding weaned piglets and growing finishing pigs with diets based on mainly home grown organic feedstuffs
... with fattening pigs, but little information is available on the suitability of peas and faba beans for piglet ...for pigs, for lupin seeds have noticeably higher pro- tein content ...
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April 1995 pig population survey 1995 11
... According to the survey on pig numbers carried out in April 1995, compared with April 1994 the number of sows fell by 1.5% and the number of fattening pigs of 50 k g and over declined by[r] ...
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Simulation Results of AgriPoliS about Diminishing Capital Subsidies and Restrictions. Factor Markets Working Document No. 55, June 2013
... Regarding investments regions can be further characterised according to the on-going investment activities. Therefore the development of specific production branches is first checked in the reference scenario (Table 2). ...
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Expert opinion on livestock antimicrobial usage indications and patterns in Denmark, Portugal and Switzerland
... Disease prevalence and predisposing management prac- tices/farming conditions are obvious factors to consider when interpreting the differences observed between the countries. An example of influencing management prac- ...
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Pig production methods in Denmark, Sweden, Holland and Ireland
... Where the daily food allowance to fattening pigs is determined hy their appetite, and for a great part of the feeding period they may be so fed, the pig with a good inherited growth stim[r] ...
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Research of biological agents effects on reduction of ammonia concentration in stables of intensive farm animals breeding
... sow fattening plants of firm Guaza- mara – Cuevas de Almanzora (Almeira-Spain) was found out reduction by 60% of ammonia emissions for piglets after application of granulate Biopolym ...for fattening ...
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